Blog Social Networking

Social networking can allow for ways to keep up with family and friends or to advance your business. Facebook has been extremely innovative for people to keep their personal connections in the know. Users can share things like photographs, videos, links or even stream live video or chat. It can even be used to promote a business or allow advertising for it. Social Networking can even allow you to promote your own blog by posting about your blog on your Facebook or LinkedIn accounts or Tweeting about it. However as Heather Timmons reports in her article “In India, Using Facebook to Catch Scofflaw Drivers”, Facebook can be distorted to be used as a means to serve the interests of power (Timmons, 2010). This article enumerates how the police in New Delhi India are using their facebook account to have people become “digital informants” and report on the traffic violations of other people. While potentially serving a greater good since the population there has exploded and their traffic officers are vastly outnumbered, it also serves as the means to publically humiliate others or even obtain revenge.

In a like way, LinkedIn can potentially be a source of networking for employees and employers. In 2006 Frank Lanfitt’s article “Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting” essentially promoted LinkedIn as a trove of opportunity for Professional recruiters and as the means for employees to keep the field open for new opportunities. More recently, it is being considered as a spamming business network with outdated software meshing the “worst of social media with the worst of corporate culture” that have people pretending to love it as it is a prime trolling ground for recruiters (Hunt, 2017). The interesting thing about social networking is that it is always transforming with new programs always coming to take over the old. Oddly enough, Instagram is currently where I go to find out about what a potential workplace is really like so it may just be a matter of time before there is the next best thing.

Hunt, Elle. “LinkedIn Is the Worst of Social Media. Should I Delete My Account?” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 9 June 2017, www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jun/09/linkedin-is-the-worst-of-social-media-should-i-delete-my-account.